Impacts of Neoliberalism on US Community Colleges

<p>Focusing on community colleges as a unique structure within American higher education this text investigates the specific ways in which these institutions have been impacted by a global increase in neoliberal education policies. </p><p>Analyzing the effects neoliberalism has had on community colleges the text charters discourse relating the erosion of faculty voice in academic governance and decision making; the vocationalization of curriculum; and the impact that these factors have had on the ability of community colleges to provide students with an education that supports a democratic society. Exposing a movement away from the historical aims of community-based education the text evidences a hijacking of community colleges to serve the objectives of the corporate elite. There has been a decline in community college faculty engagement in shared governance and their loss of recognition as academic and curricular leaders and the book discusses the potential for redistribution of decision-making power back toward faculty.</p><p>This text will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students academics professionals and policy-makers in the fields of Higher Education Education Policy and Politics Sociology of Education Higher Education Management and Education Politics. </p>